How to write “Ernest” in Korean

어니스트 eo-ni-seu-teu Listen to 어니스트, AI voice Print a free worksheet (PDF)

What Korean friends call you

• 어니스트야 eo-ni-seu-teu-ya — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
• 어니스트 씨 eo-ni-seu-teu-ssi — polite: someone you just met, or at work

Calling someone, Koreans add 아 after a final consonant and 야 after a vowel.

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Korean spellings of Ernest

• 어니스트 60 (100%)

Korean labels of 60 people named Ernest on Wikidata (English-speaking countries), October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.

Well-known people named Ernest, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):

• Ernest Hemingway — 어니스트 헤밍웨이
• Ernest Rutherford — 어니스트 러더퍼드
• Ernest Lawrence — 어니스트 로런스
• Ernest Walton — 어니스트 월턴

68,163 babies were named Ernest in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 651st most common name.

Block by block

• 어 = ㅇ + ㅓ · 3 strokes
  • ㅇ 이응 (silent / ng) · 1 stroke
  • ㅓ 어 (eo) · 2 strokes

  Also in 어: Wyatt 와이어트 · Xavier 재비어 · Claire 클레어

• 니 = ㄴ + ㅣ · 2 strokes
  • ㄴ 니은 (n) · 1 stroke
  • ㅣ 이 (i) · 1 stroke

  Also in 니: Daniel 다니엘 · Anthony 앤서니 · Nicholas 니콜라스

• 스 = ㅅ + ㅡ · 3 strokes
  • ㅅ 시옷 (s) · 2 strokes
  • ㅡ 으 (eu) · 1 stroke

  Also in 스: Christopher 크리스토퍼 · Nicholas 니콜라스 · James 제임스

• 트 = ㅌ + ㅡ · 4 strokes
  • ㅌ 티읕 (t) · 3 strokes
  • ㅡ 으 (eu) · 1 stroke

  Also in 트: Robert 로버트 · Wyatt 와이어트 · Patrick 패트릭

어니스트 takes 12 strokes in all.

More names: Leon 레온 · Ralph 랠프 · Francis 프랜시스 · Mckenzie 매켄지 · Dorothy 도로시

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